Feb 23rd 2018 @ Triple Door

Doughty is touring with the largest band he's ever toured with: a cello/bass player drums, another guitar player, an organ player, and a backing vocalist--six people on stage. The show consists of basically live remixing. Using hand gestures, Doughty improvises changes in what the musicians in the band are doing--stopping, starting, getting louder or quieter, changing their parts, repeating their parts. The songs are Soul Coughing songs and Doughty solo songs, but none are ever performed the same way twice., , It's a kind of simplified version of something Doughty saw John Zorn doing with avant-garde jazz in the 1990s, but adapted to be more along the lines of a dance music or hip-hop producer mixing tracks--bringing in the drums, dropping them out, juggling the musicians like samples.

Mike Doughty used to be Soul Coughing guy, and now he's just some guy.

His new album, produced by Good Goose, is now available. It's called THE HEART WATCHES WHILE THE ...

Doughty is touring with the largest band he's ever toured with: a cello/bass player drums, another guitar player, an organ player, and a backing vocalist--six people on stage. The show consists of basically live remixing. Using hand gestures, Doughty improvises changes in what the musicians in the band are doing--stopping, starting, getting louder or quieter, changing their parts, repeating their parts. The songs are Soul Coughing songs and Doughty solo songs, but none are ever performed the same way twice., , It's a kind of simplified version of something Doughty saw John Zorn doing with avant-garde jazz in the 1990s, but adapted to be more along the lines of a dance music or hip-hop producer mixing tracks--bringing in the drums, dropping them out, juggling the musicians like samples.

Mike Doughty used to be Soul Coughing guy, and now he's just some guy.

His new album, produced by Good Goose, is now available. It's called THE HEART WATCHES WHILE THE ...